This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...

Friday, May 30, 2014

Recently-acquired Vinyl LP of the Day #2 (Wire 'Chairs Missing')

Celebrating another recent addition to the vinyl collection
in the form of what has proved to be one of the enduring post-punk classics,
Wire’s second album ‘Chairs Missing’.

In keeping with the philosophy intended to generate the
current hunt for items to collect, this LP, as such, is one never personally owned
previously, although I did have a selection of its contents as included within
the band’s ‘On Returning’ compilation LP.

To describe the experience of hearing the vinyl LP as nothing
short of a revelation feels like something of an understatement, such is the
difference, positively, compared to the familiar CD & mp3 versions (some of
the tracks, indeed, are virtually unrecognizable from their compressed formats)
– electric music with such a buzz & edge of palpable energy requires the
physicality of vinyl to properly communicate itself & the range of its
subtleties, & no substitutes should be accepted in future, unless very
reluctantly under circumstances of no alternative.

And of course, there’s also the consideration of the
artwork, at the correct 12” square scale to do it proper justice as, again,
physical entity.